Monday, December 5, 2011

Hot & Sour Soup (Veg & Chicken)


Ingredients:

  • Stock (Vegetable or Chicken Stock) - 4 cups
  • Soy sauce - less than 1/4 cups
  • Rice Vinegar - 2 tbsp
  • Chilli sauce - 2 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Vegetables
    • Mushroom - 2 big sized (chopped)
    • Green onions(Spring onions) - 3 stems (chopped)
    • Onions - 1/2 thin sliced
    • Shredded carrots - 1/2 carrot
    • Egg whites (from 1 egg)
  • Corn flour - 2 tbsp (dissolved in little water)
  • Chicken pieces - few (for chicken soup)
Procedure:
  1. In a pan, add stock, soy sauce, rice vinegar
  2. Add all chopped vegetables and chicken pieces. DO NOT add egg whites and green onions now.
  3. Add chilli sauce and bring it to boil.
  4. Check taste. Add little salt if the stock doesn't have salt in it. 
  5. If you want it more spicy, add pepper powder.
  6. When the mushrooms and chicken are well cooked, add egg whites to a strainer and drop it little by little.
  7. Add corn flour (dissolved in water) liquid. This is to give some thickness to the soup.
  8. Finally add chopped green onions and let it cook for 3 mins.
  9. Enjoy the soup.

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